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Heya damo, everythings looking wonderful!! I have two thoughts...on regarding your thoughts on edge highlights...i think it does look fantastic wihtout, certainly more realistiic, closer to the forgeworld models, so you could go without. However, perhaps a few spots here and there strategically placed, could benefit from it...but again...thats purely up to you because as is looks effin great. one thing im not sure where you are going with, is the yellow black hazard stripe plank. While i know it was painted that way to look like an orc haphazzardly painted it, however, it looks kinda like "not well painted hazard stripes". (excuse this if its unfinished which it probably is) I think what i would do, to change that, is to add some pretty sharp edge highlights with chips and scratches especially all the way around the edges of the plank, to ground the mental image. And you could make the black lines look more like they were painted by a totally jacked paintbrush (28mm size for an ork). (in fact using an old brush dipped in super glue is a good way to get that look) errant slashs and unevenness abound. As it stands it looks like it painted with a miniature painting brush...you know what i mean? all this to say i think an extra step or two will sell that idea better
Other than that, its totally epic work as usual

BB

Heya Bebop I will probably leave the edging off the tank as I like the look so far but hey, ya never know wiv orks! :-) I think the thing that is throwing me off is the fact that it's not a hard way to get the tank to look like that and I almost feel it's been done too easy! it's only been primed with 3 colours straight from the can then the rivets picked out with browns and rusts, granted it's not a fast thing but it's pretty simple!

and the hazard stripes haven't been touched yet dude lol :-) I've worked from the turret to the interior then it'll be the sides and top I want to heavily chip and distress the panel so it's nearly unrecognisable

Yeah I dont think think you need to do the edging, vehicles can be quite quick to paint, I think its all in the weathering to tie it all together.

A little bit of graffiti on the inside wall by the hanging dude would be a nice touch.

This is why I like skipping the blogs for a few weeks, I come back to this awesomeness! You're going to have such a nice looking Ork army duder

Awesome! Yeah i know what you mean completely. You get into the difficulty of putting those edge highlights on all sweet and sharp and someone comes along with a different tactic, looks amazing and took 90% less time!! seecretssss. And yeah i figutred it was incomplete, just wasnt sure which direction you were gonna go with it Either way, epic work my friend!!!

If I was to paint up a Ork Warlord in heavy Mega Armour how would you like to see me paint him? all weathered and rusty with cables and hazard stripes? or clean and brighter panels with chipped paint and little corrosion? should I add any gore or keep it more subtle?

posing,? striding forward with gun arm pointing forward or Power Klaw arm forward? should he have a lower jaw armour or a more visible head? kustom head or just a swapped out one or one made to have 'Predator' style mandibles?

thoughts dudes.....?

Hmm. Good question. I'd like to see both. Can you do two Warbosses?


At any rate I'd like to see him standing around surveying the battle field. Big gun resting on his shoulder and an oversized stogie clutched in his powerklaw. I'd say go with a bare head but have a grot (or team of grots) lugging around an all enclosing helmet. Something flashy.

He'd also need a big banner. Something you can bust some freehand out on. And instead of a trophy pole have a large string of skulls and helmets wrapped around his chest. Like a bandoleer. But skulls. A skulloleer. A skulloleer of leering skulls.


Have him standing on top of a mangled tank. That always looks good.

 Snrub wrote:
Hmm. Good question. I'd like to see both. Can you do two Warbosses?


At any rate I'd like to see him standing around surveying the battle field. Big gun resting on his shoulder and an oversized stogie clutched in his powerklaw. I'd say go with a bare head but have a grot (or team of grots) lugging around an all enclosing helmet. Something flashy.

He'd also need a big banner. Something you can bust some freehand out on. And instead of a trophy pole have a large string of skulls and helmets wrapped around his chest. Like a bandoleer. But skulls. A skulloleer. A skulloleer of leering skulls.


Have him standing on top of a mangled tank. That always looks good.

O.o You dont want much, do you?

But I also 100% agree. Nerdy, time to get on it!

I'm partial to the Action Shots myself. And I'm not talking about dinky little 'one leg in front of the other, both solidly on the ground' sorts of 'action', but DYNAMIC ENTRY kinda action. Mega Armour doesn't actually slow the model down, you know, just makes them less agile. A MAWBoss is gonna be 2 tons of very angry armour bearing down on you at 15 MPH, dragging his powerklaw through the armour of the tanks he's running past, in order to smash you in half with his head.

I say action packed bright but grubby and power klaw of course but add some touches to prove his worth and strength, firstly underfoot stomping and crushing the head of a marine (god I hate SM ) secondly maybe with the power klaw back handing an IG in a thrusting motion crushing his body in the process.


O yes on top of a crushed tank ........ No wait make that a titan

Brilliant stuff boyz! that's what I wanted to hear, how you envision the Warboss on the field of battle! so here's the rub, I AM going to be doing a super kick ass warboss, because I scored a finecast Ghazghkull Thraka model pretty damn cheap (should arrive soon) I want to convert him slightly to be more 'Nerdy-style' and had some ideas as to posing etc. I think I'll make the Klaw the focus as far as weapons go, it just screams Ork Powaaaaaaaa! I prefer bare heads as I'm pretty partial to having a good focal face!

I'm thinking to make him taller as he looks pretty hunched? and changing the arms to be more action pose with the Klaw more visable and the gun arm sort of swung backwards as if he's moving forward at pace? I now want to have Grots holding a plate metal helmet as if it can be bolted on! a space marine not as a really obvious addition but being squashed under his boot!

now I need to find a good head for use with him, I like either aftermarket and good or a GW one I can gs some Predator style mandibles just for giggles I've googled some Ghaz conversions but nothing is really jumping at me that I want to replicate, which is good I suppose as I'll take the project on a very Damo journey

Heh. Maybe you could have him vaulting over a low wall or something with his gun-arm down and the claw outstretched.


Though I do like me a Big Choppa on a Warboss sometimes. And they give you the opportunity to get those really nice torqued twisted torso poses, where both hands are on the shaft of the choppa and he's just bringing it around in a big home-run swing.

Im all on board for a very Damo journey! Loving the concept of the warboss so far, especially like Snrub's grot pulling a helmet idea... Now to see how ya build it!

My battery has 10% so quickly are there any Fantasy Ork heads that have great features I can use for Ghaz? :-)

Hmm. Dunno. You might be better off looking around at Kromlech and the like.

What about these from Maxmini http://maxmini.eu/conversion-bits/head-swaps/orc-tech-freaks-heads-bits they come up quite large as well

I know they're sweet aren't they! :-) would love to try them but they are MASSIVE sized and takes freakin' ages to get anyhting to where I live :-( if I can find some in Aus I'd pay for 'em

Nerdy , I have some ork bits I was planning to send you ! Will PM you the pics tonights, some bits might be useful !

Well, I suppose a Waaaaaagh!!! i in order!? got me a Ghazzy and got straight to cutting him up as you'd expect I went a little crazy I decided to not change the legs as they are pretty solid bit of resin and made the base to match them, but I straightened his body to be standing taller and opened his power klaw as well as changing the position of both his arms to be more dynamic I also changed his shootas to be a dual drum fed assault cannon just for gaks and giggles! a few cables and some armour plates followed by some rivets and he's done! and looking hella mean! I've still got his normal head at the moment until I decide what I want to use? should I stick with the stock one? or use a nasty looking Maxmini one? I also squashed a marine on his base for fun and gave his gun arm an attached chain to flail around if anyone gets close.










and a couple of shots to show the size comparison with my Gutrippa model and some Nobz and a Boy and a hapless marine!



I really hope you like him as much as I do! he worked pretty much as I imagined him in my head I won't paint him until I finish those models for LittleH but he'll be done soon......

Does he have a Twin Linked Shoota? You should add more gun if so. Can always use more gun. :Thumbsup: I like the extra bulking out thought, makes him bigger and more dynamic at the same time.

Nice job and good job on the repositioning glad the dead marine made it to the base

I like the twin shoota change of head is still a good idea just to make him that bit more original

So... you basically kitbashed yourself a new Ghazzy. Nicely done! I think it's an excellent interpretation.

Nice.. Really like the size difference with the normal orks. The fluff should make him super large and the pic in the books show him towering over tiny guardsmen!

The only thing i'm not sold on is the assault cannon. it's not really orky.

Mo Dakka. After that, I would add Mo Dakka.

Have you gotten a box of Black Orcs yet?

The Black Orc and Savage Orc boxes see a lot of use in Ice and my Waaaagh!.

There is a bareheaded Black Orc head I adore. Missing an eye and a toof and just looks a ruckus. Also, there is always Grimgor. Grimgor is the fantasy equivalent of Ghaz. Perhaps a bit mo stompy,

 Solar_lion wrote:
Nice.. Really like the size difference with the normal orks. The fluff should make him super large and the pic in the books show him towering over tiny guardsmen!

The only thing i'm not sold on is the assault cannon. it's not really orky.

What part of "Moar Barrels for Moar Dakka" is un-orky?

it's not the quanity, it the look. I think Nerd could of put 3 + barrels on that and it would look great. just not a SM AC. 2 cents

Orky Baneblade is looking awesome, as is the Kustom Ghazkull model!

Cheers boyz! glad there's conjecture about him, it's how we get him just right :-) I originally had 3 assault cannons on his arm lol but it didn't look right, it made him look too unbalanced I might go back before priming and just stick some other Orky shootas on instead?

I haven't gotten any Black Orcs yet! might need to go a googling :-) and who is Grimgor? a head worthy of Ghazzy? my gut wants to replace his head for the sheer individuality of doing it but then Like Gits said, Ive basically kitbashed my own version now and the head is an anchor point to tie him to the name?

Ghaz looks massive, good looking thing. The way the wires on the claw arm go into the metal piping looks a little strange to me, needs something like bandaging or webbing.

Changed Ghazzy's gun arm back to a more normal Ork style added some more rivets with pins and gave him a more Blood Axe Kommando style back banner taking shape now.




I also managed to finish LittleH's Hammer knight guys? whatever they are nice and crisp and I didn't do too bad on the faces on them although I've cheated and shaded the sockets as the eyes are bloody tricky to do on a couple of the smaller scale ones and I wished them to all look the same






Now, this next bit is a kind of experiment beginning I primed the SW Dreadnought with a mid blue then zenithal sprayed it with a light blue then finished with white from the top, I want the model to have a cool icy feel and look as i paint, I want to use mainly washes and my swirly designs to cover it in subtle patterns that blend from white into the blues? I have only done one pass with white to get a feel for it. I think I can do something 'cool'





Sorry it's not much today dudes, but had a busy couple of days at home and away, had the parents and my sister and niece over yesterday for a Easter Friday lunch which blossomed into them staying....and staying..... and staying and as soon as they left a friend of Nerdwench turned up with her partner and their two dogs a poodle cross and a German shepherd which wouldn't be a bad thing except we're already Dogsitting a mates two dogs! another Samoyed and a spitz cross! So 7 dogs is a bloody handful I can tell you! had to put Oscar away ashe didn't want to play nice with the German! and today we went for a trip to an antiques store! and went for lunch.......